Multiple copy form packet



Jan. 1 1940.

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Patented Jan. 16, 1940 2,187,06 MULTIPLE copy FORM PACKET Albert H. Reiber, Chicago, Ill., assignor to Teletype Corporation, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of Delaware Application January 16, 1929, Serial No. 332,893

10 Claims. (01. 282-12) fed to the alining and feeding mechanism of a,

typewriting or printing machine, such as a telegraph printer. The packet of this invention is intended particularly for use in connection with the type of telegraph printer illustrated in patent to H. L. Krum #,1,665,594.

It is essential in telegraph printers, when such .0 printers are used in the production of manifold inscriptions, that the superposed printing forms be automatically held in proper registry with each other, and particularly that the duplicating paper, such as one-time carbon for example, may 5 be maintained in position between the plurality of sheets without wrinkling or causing smudging of the paper due to the shifting of the carbon paper while the sheets are under tension that causes them to tend to adhere firmly to the interposed leaves of carbon.

Telegraph printers are intended to operate under a remote control so that the operator of the machine is not at hand to manually make any adjustments in the relative position of the printed forms or in the position of the carbon paper between said forms. It is essential accordingly, that the printing forms as well as the carbon be soassociated'before they are fed to the machine, that; the machine can automatically, for long 'periods of time, maintain the proper registry between the overlying printed forms and in which the duplicating paper is kept accurately in position. i

It' is desirable that an indefinite supply of forms and duplicating paper be provided and it has been heretofore proposed to provide the printed forms and duplicating paper as continuous sheets folded in zigzag relation with the duplicating paper interleaved between the forms. Approximate alinement is brought about between the printed forms, in the constructions heretofore proposed, and, the zigzag folds in the forms and duplicating paper have been relied upon to maintain the approximate alinement while the i overlying sheets are fed to the machines. Such arrangements havenot been entirely satisfactory because the folds in themselves are insufficient to maintain proper alinement transversely of the continuous strips. As a result, the duplicating paper has a tendency to shift, causing smudging of the printing forms.

It has been found to be essential, particularly when the forms are fed to a printing telegraph machine to bring about and positively. maintain i the alinement of the forms by having alining fingers enter approximately alined perforations inthe forms and, by having the alinement thus obtained maintained when the forms are fed over the printing platen by providing the printing platen with pins or fingers that enter the regis- 5 tered perforations in the sheets. An arrangement for effecting the alinement of perforated sheets in this procedure is carried out and is described in an application of R. L. Lake, filed on even date herewith, and reference may be had to that application for a more detailed description of the manner in which the packet that constitutes the invention of this application is fed to a machine, such as a printing telegraph machine.

When the edges of the sheets are perforated in order to facilitate accurate alinement and to facilitate the maintenance of the alinement in feeding of the sheetsover the platen, it is necessary that the duplicating paper terminate short of the perforated edges of the printed forms. When the duplicating paper is of a width less than the Width of the printing forms diflicultly is encountered in maintaining the duplicating 'paper in proper position withoutwrinkling or smudging and without causing it to be destroyed by engagement of the alinement fingers or pins with the edges thereof. This invention aims to provide a packet in which the duplicating paper is clear of the alining perforations but is maintained in accurate position beneath the portions of the form upon which the typing or printing operat on takes place, and whichis so associated with the printed forms that the superposed forms and the interleaved duplicating paper may be fed evenly to the machine and without the necessity for any attention on the part of an'operator.

The primary object of the invention is to provide'a packet including a plurality of printed forms separated by duplicating paper in which the forms as well as the duplicating paper are so 40 associated that the sheets may be fed to a typewriting or printing machine, while maintaining accuracy in registration of the printed matter in the overlying forms and while maintaining the duplicating paper in proper position beneath the forms in spite of the fact that the carriage of the machine is caused to move trans versely of the overlying sheets carrying said sheets laterally from the packet from' which they aretaken.

A further object of the invention is to provide an improved packet for use in manifolding operations in which the duplicating paper is secured to the printed forms at relatively widely spaced points endwise of the duplicating sheets which 55 rality of printing forms and interleaved duplicating strips folded together in zigzag form in which the duplicating paper is attached to the overlying forms only at alternate lines of fold made to form the zigzag packet.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a packet for use in manifolding operations that may be produced at a low cost, and that may at the same time be fed to a typewriting or printing machine in such a way that the ac curacy of the alinement of the printing forms may be maintained throughout the feeding of the entire length of the material constituting the packet.

Further objects of the invention will appear as a description thereof proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a preferred embodiment of the invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of a portion of the sheets that constitute the packet before said sheets are folded in zigzag form, parts of the sheets being broken away, the lines of fold being indicated by broken lines.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral Ill indicates the packet as a whole. Said packet consists of a plurality of printed sheets or forms ll, l2 and I3. In Figure 1 of the drawing, three such sheets are shown but it will be understood that any number of 'such sheets may be used. The forms ll, l2 and I3 contain printed matter,

and it is one of the purposes of this invention to provide a packet of said forms so constructed that identical entries may be made simultaneously in precisely the same part of each of the overlying forms. In order to do this, it is obvious that the exact alinement of the forms must be a plurality of equally spaced perforations I4.

Said perforations are provided to receive pins or projections carried by the alining or feeding mechanism of the machine to which the sheets of the packet are fed.

Disposed between the sheets ll strip I5 of duplicating paper, web as one-time carbon, which strip is coextensive lengthwise with said sheets, but is of a substantially lesser width in order that the duplicating paper will not extend across or close to the perforations ll of the sheets between which it is disposed. A similar sheet of duplicating paper I6 is disposed between the sheets l2 and I3. It will be readily understood that if a greater number of forms are used, an additional strip of duplicating paper may be provided for each additional form.

The duplicating paper is preferably attached to the overlying form at a plurality of widely spaced points disposed centrally between the perforated edges of said sheets. A suitable adhesive may be used to effect this attachment or it may be effected in any other way. As shown and I2 is a in Figure 2, the duplicating paper is attached to the overlying sheet at the points I! and I8 and at other points equally spaced along the length of the duplicating paper.

In forming the packet the sheets ll, 12 and I3 may be disposed one on top of the other with the strips of duplicating paper l5 and i6 between them. Each strip of duplicating paper is attached to its overlying form as indicated by I! and 18 in Figure 2. The overlying sheets are then folded on the dotted lines indicated by the numeral I9 Figure 2, adjacent foldsbeing made in opposite directions to form a packet having zigzag folds such as clearly illustrated in Figure l.

Preferably the points I] and I8 are so arranged that alternate folds are made close to said points.

In use, the free ends of the sheets constituting the packet are fed to the printing or typewriting machine by causing the alining and feeding pins to enter the perforations I 4 in said, sheets; The packet is formedso that the perforations I4 are approximately in registry. Exact registry is brought about when the pins enter said perforations. At the same time the pins may cause the superposed sheets to be moved toward a typing or printing position. It is important that the duplicating paper shall not interfere with the alinement of the sheets, and that it should not engage the pins. For this reason each sheet thereof is secured to the overlying form at a plurality of points such as the points I! and I8 as before stated. The points to which the duplieating paper is secured to the overlying strip are preferably disposed adjacent every other line of fold made in the sheets to form the zigzag packet. In view of this arrangement the duplicating strips are substantially free of the forms throughout the major portion of their length, in order that they may not interfere with the alinement of the forms and so that the position of the strips relative to the forms will not be disturbed by movement of the carriage of the typewriting or printing machine which tends to exert a twisting effect upon the paper. By securing the sheets as just described, the carbon strips remain in proper position in spite of such action and by arranging the points of attachment as illustrated in the drawing, said points fall at the same end of the packet or one above the other when the packet has been formed. As the folds of the packet are drawn therefrom and fed to the machine the carbon strip is suspended from the point of attachment adjacent the fold and as said fold is opened the carbon is free to adjust itself should it for any reason be laterally displaced. At the same time it is smoothed out and no wrinkles remain in the carbon paper as it is fed to the machine.

An arrangement is thus provided that may be fed to a typewriting or printing machine with substantially no attention on the part of the operator in order that manifold entries may be made on the superposed forms in the exact position provided for them on said forms.

The invention may be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. The present embodiment is therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by U. S. Letters Patent is:

l. A packet for machine manifolding operations comprising a plurality of continuous strips of forms, the forms on each strip being arranged endwise of each other and each form being provided with equally spaced alining perforations so disposed that when the forms are in proper alinement;the perforations in the strips will be in exact registry, and duplicating strips between said strips of forms coextensive endwise with said strips but of a narrower width than said strips so that said duplicating strips do not normally extend to the perforations in said forms, and means to position said duplicating strip so as to prevent substantial movement thereof with respect to said forms.

2. The combination defined in claim 1 in which the means acting as the'sole instrumentality for attaching the duplicating strip to its overlying strip of forms is at spots widely spaced apart endwise of the strip but disposed centrally transversely of the strip.

3. A packet for manifolding operations comprising a plurality of continuous strips of forms, each provided with .a multiplicity of equally spaced alined perforations paralleling the margins of each strip, a continuous strip of duplicating paper between each of said strips of forms, said strips of duplicating paper being of a width substantially narrower than the width of the form strips so that said duplicating paper will not extend to said perforations, and means to attachsaid duplicating paper to its superposed strip of forms at relatively widely spaced apart points to prevent substantial lateral movement thereof with respect to the strips of forms.

' 4. An .assembly of manifolding material comprising a plurality of superposed continuous independent record strips and interleaved transfer strips, said strips being collectively interfolded into zigzag formation to form a supply packet from which the strips are simultaneously withdrawn, the record strips being of greater width than the transfer stripsand aperturedin that portion extending beyond the transfer strips to enable engagement with strip feeding andarresting devices independently of the interleaved transfer strips.

5. As an article of manufacture, a continuous record strip comprising a succession-,0! interconnected separable sheets joined end to end, and a continuous strip of transfer materialcomprising a succession of interconnected separable sheets joined end to end, said strips being superposed one upon the other and detachably connected one to the other atfspaced intervals and adapted by virtue of such attachment to be advanced in unison into successive inscription-receiving positions.

6. As an article bf manufacture, a continuous record strip comprising a succession of interconnected separable sheets joined end to end, and a continuous strip of transfer material comprising a succession of interconnected separable sheets joined end to end, said strips being super-. posed one upon the other and detachably connected one to the other at spaced intervals, said record strip being of greater width than the strip of transfer material, the marginal portion of the record strip beyond the transfer material strip being apertured for engagement with a strip feeding device independently of the strip of transfer material, said strips being adapted by virtue of their attachment to be advanced in unison'into successive inscription-receiving positions.

7. The combination with superposed continuous independent strips of record material having marginal series of apertures for engagement of strip feeding means, of an interposed strip of transfer material cut away at its margins to miss the stripfeeding means whereby the strip feeding means will engage the record strips independently of the interposed transfer strip, the strip of transfer material being attached to one of the record strips at spaced intervals to insure unison advance travel of said strips.

8. A plurality of superposed continuous record strips and an interleaved continuous strip of transfer material of less width than the record.

strips between each two of the latter, the record and transfer strips being transversely divisible into sheets along spaced transverse tear lines, means enabling the engagement of strip feeding means with the record strips independently of the interleaved transfer strips, and means fixedly,

interconnecting each transfer strip to one only of the record strips at points intermediate succeeding transverse tear lines.

9. A plurality of superposed continuous record strips and an interleaved continuous strip of transfer material between each two record strips, the record and transfer strips being transversely divisible into sheets along spaced transverse tear lines, and spots of adhesive material applied at spaced intervals between the clean side of each transfer strip and the back of arecord strip for fixedly interconnecting each transfer strip to the overlying record strip for traveling movement as one strip.

10. A manifolding pile comprising a plurality of continuous worksheet strips and a carbon strip between each two worksheet strips of the same length, running with saidworksheet strips in superposed relation therewith and unattached thereto at its, longitudinal edges, and means individual to each carbon strip for holding the latter to, and against lateral movement with relation to, one of the adjacent worksheet strips.

A. H. REIBER. 

